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Bitter Sweet Symphony. By The Verve, listen to it for an important part. Just to go with the drama of it.

EMMETTS POV

"Pregnant?" I echoed in disbelief, laughing a bit. It wasn't that the situation was funny; far from it. It was one of those nervous, shocked laughs.

"Pregnant," Bella confirmed.

But was it Edward's baby or mine?

Before I'd even finished thinking the question, I realized how dumb it was. It was mine, of course. Edward hadn't finished that day; she'd told me herself. Not to mention that even if he had finished, he wouldn't have been as careless as I was; he would have pulled out. I sat down on the ground and looked up at Bella.

"How is this possible?"

"Do I really have to explain?" Bella asked sarcastically.

"No, no. I mean, I know how it happened, but that's usually with two humans. A human and a vampire? That's never happened before...no one's ever heard of a child born to a human and a vamipire…"

My voice trailed off and I looked up at her and smiled. "Bella, I'm finally going to be a dad."

She smiled back and nodded, tears in her eyes. She bent down to hug me. "Our baby."

She sat down between my outstretched legs and leaned her back against my chest. I wrapped an arm around her and felt her stomach. It did seem to feel more firm, more rounded out.

But how could that be? It had only been two days since our return. She should only be 3-5 days pregnant now. I shook the thought away; I didn't want to frighten her, especially if she was already nervous.

"Are you scared?" I asked her. She thought about it for a moment.

"A little," she admitted. "But it's just the usual pregnancy fears about the pain and all that. I couldn't be more happy to have a baby with you."

I gently rested my chin on her head. "You know this is going to be dangerous," I said softly. She remained quiet.

"Nothing like this has ever happened in vampire history. I mean, there are cases of rape, but the human...well, it's never good for the human. He or she rarely survives the rape. Those that do are murdered shortly after." I turned Bella's face so that it was halfway facing me. The facts were grusome, but I wanted her to understand the risks. "This baby could hurt you, Bella. Who knows, it could even kill you. We don't know for sure what's growing inside of you."

JASPER'S POV

"He's slowing down." I yelled to Alice.

From the corner of my eye I spotted the WELCOME TO FORKS sign on the side of the road. Up ahead, Edward was still running.

We'd been chasing Edward for some time now, and it finally looked like we were going to catch up to him.

"We have to stall him. I'll need to take him down, and maybe that will give you enough time to get home and warn Emmett." I said.

Alice nodded. "Okay, I'm ready."

She raised her hands for me to hold. I jumped on to Alice's shoulders as she ran and grabbed on to her hands. Thanks to her vampiric nature, Alice was strong enough to hold me, despite her size. I was not as skilled at balancing myself as she was.

She threw me towards Edward and I landed directly behind him. I lunged forward quickly and we toppled to the ground.

"GO, ALICE!" I shouted, struggling to hold Edward down. She zoomed past us; the breeze from her speed was the only sign of her absence.

Edward pushed up in an attempt to flip me over, but I was holding onto him tightly with my legs and he ended up flipping with me. I held him down as he laid on top of me, struggling hard to free himself.

"LET GO!" Edward bellowed.

I ignored him and focused on maintaining my grip. He elbowed me and hit my ribs, and I grunted at the impact but never let go. Instead, I knocked my head against his and wrapped my arm around his neck.

"Edward, listen! I know you're upset, but you have to calm down!" I yelled.

"What if Emmett had slept with Alice instead of Bella?" he shouted back, trying to pry my arm away. I couldn't argue with that, but I had promised to get Alice time. I kept my grip on him, but he sensed that he had won me over.

"Jasper, I love her. She's my life! You know how much I've done for her, what she's done for me. Everyone in the family found their true love years ago; it took me a century to find her! How else could I react?" His plea was desperate. Edward was devestated, hurt, angry, betrayed, and he had every right to feel those things.

I released my hold on him. He rolled off of me and helped me to my feet.

"Don't do anything stupid," I warned him.

"I can't make any promises."

JACOB'S POV

"Sam, that's enough," I said firmly, watching Seth cry silently.

Sam was teaching Seth a lesson for being disobedient, and Seth was curled up on the floor, wounded badly.

"He needs to learn respect," Sam growled, kicking Seth across the face for emphasis. Seth turned his head to spit a tooth and mouthful of blood. It looked like one of his back teeth. I stepped between the two of them.

"That's enough." My voice rang with the authority of a pack leader. I held my head up, trying to show Sam that he may be the Alpha, but I too had authority.

"What? Jacob, he didn't just let Bella leave, he took her right to that...thing!" Sam said with a shiver.

"I think he has the idea." I turned to Seth and helped him up. He staggered to a tree and leaned against it.

"Seth, you are no longer a member of this pack until we decide you are fit to return. Assuming the first person you run to will be Bella, tell her and the leeches to expect to hear from us soon. This thing will not be born," I said.

Seth kept his gaze lowered, looking to the ground. He nodded, limped to the line, and hesitated for a moment. Seth had never left La Push without the pack, but now he had no choice. He turned to us one last time before taking off into the woods towards the leeches.

I looked at the others, all of whom were avoiding my eyes. I turned to Sam.

"Are you ready for what we have to do?" I asked him.

"I think I should be asking you that. Bella can get hurt during this. You know that, right?" Sam asked.

I looked away.

BELLA'S POV

"I don't care. If I have to die for the baby to live, then I'll do it. All that really matters now is keeping it safe." I looked up at Emmett, rubbing my stomach protectively. "I'm going to be a mother. It's my job to keep this baby safe now."

"How do we explain this to the others?" Emmett asked, thinking aloud.

"Right now, we have to focus on the baby. Sam, Jacob, and the rest of the pack all know. They want to kill it."

I explained what I'd seen in the visions and the realization that I was pregnant. I told him how Sam and Jacob had said they wouldn't let the birth take place, and because they were pack leaders the rest of the pack would follow suit.

Except Seth, who had brought me to the territory line. I felt a pang of guilt and gratefulness; I knew he would pay for helping me.

"They want to kill the baby?" Emmett asked worriedly. "But how were they going to do that without hurting you?"

"I don't know," I said, realizing that even Jacob wanted to hurt my baby, possibly at my expense. I whispered, "Maybe that doesn't matter."

Jacob...he was my best friend. Would he really kill me if it came to that? Maybe Emmett had been right when he'd said I couldn't be sure about him.

"We have no choice but to tell Carlisle. The mutts will not let this go. I mean, they've been looking for any little reason to fight us, and here's a big reason. They're going to declare war." he said.

"But you didn't kill anyone." I protested.

"No, but they'll claim that the baby could pose a threat to humans, and I'm sure they realize this is endangering your life. And it doesn't help that one of their leaders is in love with you. When they give a command, the rest of the pack must follow."

"Seth didn't." I whispered.

"Trust me, he's going to pay for that."

We both looked down as my stomach rumbled.

"We have to go." Emmett picked me up in his arms and ran back to the Cullens' home.

I was going to be a mother…I still couldn't believe it.

How was I going to explain this to Charlie, Mom, Carlisle, Rosalie? How could I tell Edward? At the thought of him, my heart sank. Dread and heavy guilt sunk into the pit of my stomach, and I tried to swallow back my tears. This would hurt him so much.

My thoughts were focused on this, and I didn't realize we were already inside the house until I heard Esme.

"Is everything okay? Why is she crying? What happened?" Esme asked, alarmed.

"Get Carlisle," Emmett said as he carried me up the stairs to Edward's room. I looked over at Esme and saw Rosalie enter the room.

"EMMETT!" she roared. "Why are you carrying the human? Put her down!"

Esme held Rosalie back.

"Not now, Rose," Emmett said with his back to her.
He slammed the door shut with his foot when we reached Edward's room. Still, I could hear Rosalie screaming hysterically downstairs. He set me on the bed.

"I have to throw up," I said and turned to the side of the bed. I couldn't control it, but it didn't matter because Emmett was already holding the wastebasket to my face. I threw up into it, my energy draining so I couldn't even turn to see who it was knocking at the door. I knew it was Carlisle by the sound of his voice.

"What's wrong?" Carlisle asked as I vomited again. He walked over and put his hand on my forehead. "Bella, you're warm."

My nausea was subsiding, and Emmett and I exchanged glances. We didn't know how to begin. Carlisle flashed his eyes to Emmett and then back to me, waiting, already growing suspicious.

"Did the Quileutes hurt you?" Carlisle asked me. I shook my head.

"Carlisle, she...she's pregnant." Emmett put his hand on my shoulder. Carlisle was silent. I looked up at him, and he seemed to be taking it in, a child born to a vampire and human.

"Your life is at risk, Bella, but I assume you're aware of that," Carlisle said. I nodded.

"Well then." A grin spread across his face. "Congratulations. I'm sure Edward will be very happy to hear this."

Emmett closed his eyes and bit down on his lip. I hung my head, and Carlisle's grin slowly disappeared.

"It's not Edward's." said Emmett softly. He reached for my hand and cleared his throat. "It's mine."

I couldn't help looking at Carlisle; I kind of felt like I deserved to see the disappointment in his face as my punishment. He was looking at our hands and his mouth opened.

But before he could speak, we heard a crash from downstairs and a desperate scream.

"EMMETT! RUN! RUN, EMMETT!" It sounded like Alice.

Seconds later she slammed open the door to Edward's room and barged in, trailed by Esme and Rosalie.

"Run! You have to go!"

"What's the matter?" Carlisle asked her.

"EMMETT! RUN!" But Emmett was so confused that he stayed in place, unable to register what was happening. Alice shoved him in an attempt give him a head start, but he didn't budge an inch. "He knows! Edward-"

And then we heard a hiss from the open doors of the balcony.

I was only able to see Edward appear there; the rest was a fast blur. Somehow, Edward ended up on top of Emmett. Something slammed against the bed, and I could only hear the rest because the bed began to fall apart.

Carlisle scooped me up just before the bed completely caved in and held me in his arms. I winced as I felt a pain in my stomach. I looked down to see what was wrong and was momentarily stunned. My stomach looked bigger already, and it even felt like it was stretching.

I shook my head and looked up. I couldn't make out much of what was going on; this fight was much faster than the one between Alice and Rosalie, spurred on by strong emotions on either side. I could only hear hisses. And then Emmett cried out in pain.

"Edward! I don't want to hurt you!" I heard Emmett yell.

Edward laughed bitterly. "It's a little too late for that."

There was a tremendous boom, and I was sickened by the thought that one had punched the other.

EMMETT'S POV

"You son of a bitch," Edward growled. I felt his foot make contact with my stomach as he kicked me with all his strength. I slammed against the bookshelves lined with his CD collection and they rained down around me on the floor.

The others in the room screamed and ran out, Carlisle with Bella in his arms. They wouldn't be able to stop this fight.

But how did Edward find out?

Of course. Alice must have seen something.

It wasn't her fault. She couldn't keep her thoughts from Edward the way I could; she'd never really had reason to. Besides, sweet, little, ol' Alice could never lie to one of us.

I barely felt the items on the bookshelf hit me. What did hurt was the bite he had given me on my neck.

He was coming towards me again to jump back on me, so I punched him in the face and knocked him back into the wall. He went through it easily, making a hole through the wall and landing outside in the hallway.

Carlisle turned his back to us, to Bella would not get her, in an attempt to protect the others as well, while they ran to the staircase.

I hadn't seen him come in, but Jasper was there too, trying to pin Edward down. Edward, however, was faster than him, and he hit Jasper behind the neck.

Whatever Edward had done to him had made Jasper motionless. Alice screamed and was by his side in an instant.

Then I saw Rosalie run towards him. She hit him over the head with one of Esme's vases. Rose was fully aware the vase wouldn't hurt him; she meant for it to serve as a distraction to allow her to jump on Edward's back.

"Leave him alone!" she screamed, pulling his hair.

I was afraid he would hurt her like he'd hurt Jasper, but luckily Esme pulled her away and pinned her to the ground. She kicked her legs.

"Tell him to leave my husband alone." she demanded.

Edward looked at her and scoffed. "Your husband? Do you know what your so-called 'husband' has done?"

I took the opportunity to jump on him when he wasn't looking and finally pinned him down.

"I don't want to hurt you!" I said to him.

"Well, you keep saying it but you obviously never gave a damn about that, did you?" Edward spat out bitterly, pushing me off. I rolled down the stairs, ricocheting between the wall and rail. I could hear the pictures hanging on the wall falling to the ground and shattering.

I hit the first floor landing with a loud, cracking sound like thunder. As soon as I made contact with the ground, Edward was on top of me again. He put his hand to my neck and dug his nails into the wound he'd made before.

I let out an involuntary cry of pain. I grabbed desperately at his hand and twisted it at the wrist until I heard a snap.

He howled and pulled back, holding up his hand to look at it. The bones were sticking out. He was breathing hard, his mouth open as he looked at his wrist.

"AH," he said, his eyes wide in his pain and disbelief.
I grabbed my neck; it still stung terribly.

"Oh my God!" I heard Bella say. "Stop it, stop it! Edward, I'm pregnant! Emmett's the father!" she yelled as she ran down the stairs. Everyone froze.

"Nooooooo!"

BELLA'S POV

I reached Edward at the bottom of the stairs and only had enough time to turn around when I heard Rosalie scream. "Noooooo!"

I looked up to the second floor landing and saw her clutching two fists full of her hair, her eyes squeezed shut and her face twisted by pain and anger.

Suddenly, while I was looking at her, she opened her eyes wide and hissed at me. "You bitch!"

Jasper grabbed her hands and secured them behind her back. She fought to get away, jumping, kicking the air, thrashing her head around, screaming. Alice and Esme took hold of Rosalie's legs.

"Take her to her room. I'll go get a needle," Carlisle said, trying to make himself heard over the noise before rushing away.

The other three were holding her up so her body seemed to be floating in the air. She was squirming but somehow managed fix her gaze on me.

"How could you? You fucking human, you filthy whore!" She spit in my direction. "Emmett is my husband! I was the one who needed to give him a child, not you!"

As they carried her out of the room, I could hear her screaming. "I told you she was trying to steal him from me! I told you all! And everyone thought I was crazy!"

They hauled her away. Even with the door closed I could hear her screaming. I turned to see Edward sitting down on the ground. He was still breathing hard, looking at his wrist. He closed his eyes and grabbed his hand; with one hard push I watched as he popped his bones back under his skin with a disgusting noise. His skin tore open again to allow the bones in. He just sighed in pain.

Emmett sat up and pushed himself away from Edward with his feet. Once he was far enough, he stood up.

"Edward-" Emmett tried. But Edward shot him a look and held up his hand.

"Don't. Nothing you could or will ever say will make me forgive you." He stood up and pointed at me, still addressing Emmett. "How could you? How could you be so selfish, that you could take the only person I ever loved away from me?"

His voice broke. I knew that if he could, he'd be crying right now.

It was too much. Rosalie was going crazy, the Cullens probably hated me, and look at what I'd done to two brothers. I started crying. I never thought things would turn out like this. I grabbed my stomach as Edward continued.

"Why Bella? You've had Rosalie for so long! It took me years; no a whole century! to find Bella. And you were there to see how alone I felt. You were there to see how happy and complete she made me. I risked everything I had for this girl!"

Emmett listened silently and hung his head. We'd hurt Edward so much, and there was nothing we could do to make it better for him. It hurt me to know this, and I could barely see from all the crying.

But Emmett and I loved each other; there was no deying it. He could sense my feelings and held his hand out to me. I hesitated for a moment and walked to him, taking his hand.

"Edward, we never - this wasn't a fling or a one-night stand. I love Bella. I can't deny how she makes me feel." Emmett looked at Edward pleadingly. "We're having a baby together," he said softly.

"Well, that's comforting. Thank you, Emmett, that's exactly what I wanted to hear," said Edward sarcastically with a wry smile. He narrowed his eyes at him, then looked at me. "Do you love him?"

I nodded, crying. "I'm sorry."

Edward turned to his side and put his hand to his mouth. I noticed that his wrist was healed. I looked at Emmett; his neck too had healed.

Edward nodded and rubbed his lips with his middle finger, index, and thumb.

"There's nothing here to save, nothing left for me here. You think you could love this girl better? Go on and try." he said, pointing at me.

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Edward reached into his pocket and pulled out a small box.

I gasped as I realized what it was. He set it casually onto a step. I looked up as I saw Jasper and Alice standing at the top of the staircase. Edward grabbed my hand, bowed his head, and kissed it.

"Congratulations." He looked at both Emmett and me. Emmett cleared his throat.

"Edward." I called, but my only reply was the slam of a door. When I turned around, Jasper was at my side. Alice was behind him, holding out the small box from Edward.

Jasper was saying something to Emmett, and by the looks on their faces, they seemed to be arguing. But I couldn't hear anything, everything seemed to be happening in slow motion. Alice opened the box and turned it for me to see.

A brilliant, gleaming, sparkling princess-cut engagement ring, rested directly in the center of the box. Engraved on the inside of the band were a lion and lamb and a small heart between them. Next to them were the words "You are my life."

Alice snapped the box shut and pressed it to my chest, so I grabbed it. She shook her head and walked towards the door after Edward. I turned to see Jasper and Emmett yelling at each other.

I sat down on the bottom stair and sobbed.

Jasper was pointing to me and then at the door. He shook his head at Emmett and pushed him back with one hand, following after Alice and Edward. Emmett came over to me and kneeled.

"I'm sorry," he said, my hearing restored.

"What have we done?" I asked in disbelief.

"What's going on!" Esme asked as she took in the destruction of the room and came downstairs.

I shook my head, tears running down my face and more welling up in my eyes. I couldn't explain this again, not to Esme.

Emmett stood up, took a deep breath, and told her everything.